Old News Entry – 1997

English

Right now we are on a four day break from school, which is a great thing. School is really fun, but very demanding. This semester we are taking 8 classes, all thrown into one course called “MIBS 701”, where we are learning all the things that someone with an undergraduate business degree already knows. Some of the classes we are taking include Financial Accounting, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Principles of Management, and Management and Information Systems. The MIS class was very fun and useful, since that is where we learned how to publish web pages. In addition, we are taking 3 hours of Chinese every week, plus at least 1 hour with a language partner and 1 hour with a personal tutor. It is not nearly as hectic as this summer (that was 40+ hours/week), but its still Chinese to us! Columbia is a nice place to live. The summer here was very hot, but right now the weather is wonderful. Unfortunately, we don’t get out much. Our apartment is nice and big, but the 24 hour power-and-water outage in our building last week was not too fun, since 17 floors of stairs to climb is a lot after a long day.